The Guardian, a British paper recently reported that the alleged fraud was detected after Busoga Association claimed to have spent over 198 million shillings to hire consultants to make a bid for a donation from Comic relief.
The Court of Appeal has declined to grant permission to the 4 NRM MPs to appeal to the Supreme Court over their impending expulsion from Parliament. MPs Theodore Ssekikubo, Wilfred Nuwagaba, Barnabas Tinkasiimire and Mohammed Nsereko were challenging the jurisdiction of 3 judges to hear and determine a Constitutional application by their party seeking to throw them out of parliament.
They are Charles Walimbwa Peke, the incumbent Manafwa district LC V chairperson and James Netalisire, a businessman in Mbale also husband to Sarah Netalisire the Manafwa district woman MP.
Buliisa Member of Parliament Steven Mukitale Birahwa says only re-centralization of medical services will address Buliisa district’s health staff problems. Buliisa has for the last three years gone without a district health officer and staff retention in the existing health facilities is a problem.
At least 95 members of the U.S. Congress have signed a bipartisan letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to address the violence of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa.
They also recovered several application forms of nurses the suspect had allegedly recruited after soliciting money from them purportedly to take them to South Sudan.
While members of the Civil Society accuse government of harassing them for their advocacy work among the communities affected by the proposed refinery, government insists the group is sabotaging the project by mobilizing residents against it.
The Appointment of Rev Canon George Bagamuhunda as the New Bishop of Kigezi has drawn mixed reactions from members of the laity in the Diocese. Canon Bagamuhunda has always been described by Kigezi Christians as a practical administrator who was behind the establishment of several gravity water flow schemes in the Diocese, although his critics say he is not a good preacher. Some members of the Laity say he is a priest who is rarely seen on the pulpit.
M23 rebels in Eastern DRC have threatened to recapture the North Kivu Provincial capital Goma accusing the Congolese government of failing to live up to its commitments. Bertrand Bisiimwa, the political head of the rebel group, accuses the Kinshasa government of deliberately refusing to honor the November 2012 declaration by the heads of State of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).
